Director/PDMR Shareholding

3i Group PLC
22 March 2006


UK Listing Authority Disclosure Rules

DR 3.1


On the dates below the Directors and persons discharging management
responsibility ('PDMR') in respect of 3i Group plc listed below acquired
interests in Ordinary Shares of 53 1/8p ('Shares') of 3i Group plc at the
prices shown below.  These share interests were acquired through the
reinvestment of 3i Group plc's interim and special dividends on shares which
were the subject of share awards held under the rules of The 3i Group Deferred
Share Bonus Plan and The 3i Group Discretionary Share Plan.

                                                  Date interest         Price      Number of Shares
                                                  acquired

Director and PDMR of 3i    Philip Yea             18 January 2006       £8.8550    510
Group plc                                         28 February 2006      £9.6295    719
                           Michael Queen          18 January 2006       £8.8550    76
                                                  28 February 2006      £9.6295    530
                           Simon Ball             18 January 2006       £8.8550    115
PDMR of 3i Group plc       Jonathan Russell       18 January 2006       £8.8550    212
                           Chris Rowlands         18 January 2006       £8.8550    18
                           Tony Brierley          18 January 2006       £8.8550    96
                                                  28 February 2006      £9.6295    90
                           Denise Collis          18 January 2006       £8.8550    36
                                                  28 February 2006      £9.6295    83

The place of these transactions was the London Stock Exchange.  On 21 March
2006, the Company became aware that because of an administrative oversight these
changes in Directors' interests had not been notified.


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